Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have devised this method of responding to the Commissioner by moving the Sessional Statement into committee of the whole so we can deal with it in some detail. I think the expectation is when you make a statement like this, which proposed to talk not only about this session but for the next two years, then you would expect it would reflect what is left in our mandate as we have developed as we have gone along over the last two years.

I feel one of the big problems we always have is we set up a committee and the committee outlines what is the huge priority of the day. In the 10th Assembly, it was housing. The housing committee went all over the place and came up with lots of great ideas to solve the housing crisis. In 11th Assembly we set up one on the economy, and now we are into social and health issues. We never deal with any of it, we just keep on piling one on the other.

It seems to me, if you are going to make a sessional statement which has to do with what we are going to achieve within the next two years of our mandate, then you would hope it would reflect these big issues we have been talking about for so long and some kind of solution to deal with them. I found that the statement, although I was happy with many things in it, I feel there were so many things that were just left unsaid. It was not what was in it that I am concerned about, but what wasn't in it. We have so many issues we have left dangling in the air and we haven't tried to meet them head on.

That is all I have to say, Mr. Chairman. There are so many things that were left out, but I have no real contention with some of the things in the statement, apart from the one issue of the Power Corporation but I have already referred to it in my reply to the Commissioner. That is the major issue in my area, in addition to the concerns about this building and the payroll tax. Thank you.